Native Liberation and Money
2023, 2024, and Summer 2025 Goals
CECILIA
2023 Cecelia: Connect with my allies to discharge on this, hire someone to help declutter
2024 Cecilia: to cut my credit card debit in half by March, set up my resources to support me in downsizing and decluttering my place (to be at half by March); set up the legal matters with my lawyers to deed my parent’s property by May
LAURA P
2023 Laura P.: Track my income and expenses every 3 months
2024 Laura P: to regularly track my income and expenses; have regular $ sessions
ZIIGWAN
2023 Ziigwan: Have plan for when benefits stop
2024 Ziigwan: to find a job that pays $70K or make that amount per year
SARAH
2024 Sarah: to understand my financial situation by next year and get regular sessions towards doing that
AYANA
2024 Ayana: to figure out how to use the $ that’s coming in soon to now to build a place to live that’s reliable and not too expensive, maybe an attached dwelling; and longer term, to buy land in California
SUZANNAH
2023 Suzannah: Contact a civil engineer for my pool
2024 Suzannah: I want to have at least a weekly $ session and have a once a day mini; to stay the course with all the FEMA relief bureaucratic
exhaustion; and to know that I’m smart to get a livable house that I’m supported to fix
JEANNINE
2023 Jeannine: How much $ I have and how I spend and do more giving
2024 Jeannine: get a clear picture of my finances; update a will; and claim the unearned inheritance from my mother and give some of it away
KATE
2023: Kate: Focus on the financial health of my business to make profit
2024 Kate: my business making $, not just sustaining itself
TAMMY
2023 Tammy: Apply and get accepted into Harvard business executive program
2024 Tammy: continue to figure out family trust that my sister left me with a bunch of $, to distribute the $ to family; to raise $250K from corporate and government donations for my new non-profit; hire an investment manager; to update my will
2025 Summer Tammy: Goals: get grants for my nonprofit, need it by October, $150k PROGRESS: have not raised anything yet … but close, completed plan and sent to potential funders, hopeful
TUNGWENUK
2024 Tungwenuk: hand over 2 of my credit cards!
LAURA Y
2023 Laura Y.: I’m overwhelmed; I need time to create budget, ledger – I will ask for help and allow help in
2024 Laura Y: to not give up and take the next step to get a loan to move to Moorehead; and sell and move my current house
2025 Summer Laura Y: Goal: move to Moorehead, sell my house/get my house ready to sell, set timeline of 6 months of getting house ready to sell PROGRESS: had some yardwork done, will have realtor look at it and price – within next 2 months
MICHAEL Y
2023 Michael: Work on my savings, stop procrastinating on exercise
2024 Michael: getting sessions on working to upgrade veteran’s disability; getting more sessions to discharge on early hurts to have better health plan to alleviate meds to not pay for them
2025 Summer Michael: Goal: work on paperwork to get higher disability from the VA, ASAP PROGRESS: August 15 goal to make progress on VA benefits
NANCY
2024 Nancy: set up a daily money mini with my partner to get info on home owner’s insurance; keep discharging invisibility distress and promote small business in my area; update my will
DEB
2023 Deb: Have an intentional community somewhere - achieve by looking at early memories of discouragement
2024 Deb: update my will; continue with intentional community idea, looking for land in a specific area, figuring out best geography; send out my invoices and do my own collection agency work for myself
SUZIE
2024 Suzie: continue with following my finances better, tracking my expenses and pay off my credit card debt
2025 Summer Suzie: Goals: Pay off my personal loans 1st and then my credit cards -- $8k – set timeline, then only use credit card when needed, and pay off each month PROGRESS: paid off loan, working on credit cards
SIMONE
2024 Simone: taxes that I need to get caught up to then not be missing out on that $; working on sessions to figure out my job situation that will be changing soon
ANDRES
2023 Andres: Enroll in a medical plan and see doctor
AMPARO
2023 Amparo: Determine by “what about me” plan and work on saying “no”
2024 Amparo: figure out what I want for my life and saying no, who I want to live with; thinking about being an indigenous female while doing this
MIKE M
2023 Mike: Help my wife take ownership and agency in relationship to our family’s finances
2024 Mike: relative to my consultant business, to set a target revenue and aggressively call former clients to work with them or have them refer me for more work
2025 Summer Mike: GOAL: get agreement with my nephew on outstanding loans PROGRESS: talked with my nephew, open discussion, but no plan as he is still struggling financially
JENNIFER
2025 Summer Jennifer: cleared my credit card debt and got line of credit -- $15k, have vehicle loan, make a solid payment consistently for line of credit and cover loan payments, put $1,000 aside each month to reduce line of credit.